Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

If you could get her to write a book...’” That book became I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which recently celebrated its 50th birthday. In the memoir, Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson ...

I was one of the few Black students at the Naval Academy in the 1970s, and had more freedom than students do now ...

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A group of Annapolis-area residents and Naval Academy alumni launched an effort to purchase books removed from the Nimitz ...

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an order from the office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. By John ...

Local alumni, residents and former USNA faculty hold a public reading of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” on Saturday at City Dock to protest the 381 books banned from the ...

These are not fringe books. And yet, under the proposed House Bill 1539, now advancing in the Florida legislature, these ...

April 11, 2025 Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf ...

The name of the project is “Operation Caged Bird,” named for one of the books removed from the Naval Academy’s library, Maya ...

Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was among the 381 books that were recently removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library, according to a list released by the Navy Friday.